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24.02.2024 - 11:55 / ok.co.uk
Spice Girl Mel B has opened up about the financial struggles she faced after leaving her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte, revealing she was left with just £700.
The 48 year old star has been open about her abusive relationship with Stephen, which he has always strongly denied.
The pair secretly tied the knot in June 2007 and split a decade later. After their break-up, Mel B found herself short of money and had to move into her mum Andrea's bungalow, sharing a bed with her three kids - Phoenix, Angel and Madison. Despite her successful career, she felt she had 'nowhere to go' due to the impact of the relationship.
"Because I was so badly affected financially from my relationship, I had to pick up the pieces," she shared, recalling how she only had £700 in her bank account after losing control of her finances during her marriage to Stephen. She also claimed that she didn't have access to a credit card while they were together. Five years on, she's back on her feet and has moved out of her mum's home.
Despite everything, the Spice Girl remained positive and spent time 'speaking to abuse survivors', showing that it can 'happen to anyone and you can build yourself up.'When money was tight, she would bulk buy at Costco and even shopped at Aldi and Lidl. No one knew who she was when she had a face mask on while shopping during the busy Covid times. "I stood in a queue for the first time in a long time.
No one batted an eyelid," she shared with The Sun. "After being in an abusive relationship for years you really have to rebuild yourself inside and out. Nobody can do that apart from you." Even after leaving Stephen, Mel had a hard time and said it 'affected her whole family', but that she is a 'work in progress' and can appreciate
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Mel B has opened up about having to move into her mum’s bungalow after an abusive relationship left her “powerless”.The Spice Girls star – real name Melanie Brown – left California and returned home to Leeds after she allegedly suffered physical, emotional and financial abuse at the hands of ex-husband Stephen Belafont, who has repeatedly denied claims made by the singer.The decision to move back home with her mum came while the Spice Girls were on their UK stadium tour in 2019, as revealed in a new interview with the BBC.She said that money made from touring was spent on legal fees and payment to her ex-husband, who is a film producer.“I wasn’t just emotionally and physically abused, there was all the financial abuse too. I didn’t realise that I didn’t have as much money as I thought I had.
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Mel B has given her fans a trip down memory lane by sharing a rare peek into her Leeds home, which is filled with Spice Girls memorabilia. Her eldest daughter, Phoenix Chi Brown, posted a photo with her mum for Mother's Day, but fans were quick to spot that Mel's walls were covered with old photos of her and her bandmates from their Spice Girls days.
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Geri Horner once found Melanie Brown 'crumpled up' in the shower, sobbing over her marriage torment. Spice Girl Mel, 48, was speaking to the Mirror about her 10-year 'abusive' marriage to ex Stephen Belafonte and her role as a patron for domestic abuse charity Women's Aid. Stephen has always denied the abuse.
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When the Spice Girls formed 30 years ago, it was all about Girl Power.Three decades on, for Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, it still is. With a potential reunion with her former bandmates on the cards and planning for her wedding to fiancé Rory McPhee in full swing, when OK! caught up with the star, it was instantly clear that she’s a woman in full control of and loving her own life. It’s been a roller-coaster journey though, and one she’s now brought bang up to date in a reissue of her warts-and-all biography Brutally Honest.